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| - | Linux kernel maintainers are encouraged to make use of the cocciecheck to vet for issues on their tree. This can be used to help review quality of patches before they get merged into your tree as well. | + | Linux kernel maintainers are encouraged to make use of the coccicheck to vet for issues on their tree. This can be used to help review quality of patches before they get merged into your tree as well. |
| - | These days coccicheck is run every now and then by Julia Lawall, false possitives are reviewed (in particular cocci files where confidence is annotated as low), and then once issues are confirmed patches typically are sent to maintainers. | + | These days coccicheck is run every now and then by Julia Lawall, false positives are reviewed (in particular cocci files where confidence is annotated as low), and then once issues are confirmed patches typically are sent to maintainers. |
| - | Average developers can and should use coccicheck as well but care should be taken to ensure the '''Confidence''' tag is reviewed and proper dilligence is done before sending any reports / fixes to kernel maintainers. | + | Average developers can and should use coccicheck as well but care should be taken to ensure the '''Confidence''' tag is reviewed and proper diligence is done before sending any reports / fixes to kernel maintainers. |
| It seems the zero day bot test infrastructure also makes use of 'make coccicheck' --- this section needs to be extended to document in what capacity this is done, how often, etc. | It seems the zero day bot test infrastructure also makes use of 'make coccicheck' --- this section needs to be extended to document in what capacity this is done, how often, etc. | ||
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